Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Edric L. Eaton” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ti ra wa hut Re sa ru (Sky Chief)
Edric L. Eaton · ca. 1867

Dryopteris clintoniana (D.C. Eaton) Dowell x D. cristata (L.) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/7/97

From Eaton
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg · December 8, 1776

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 189

Organized square piano (square piano and pipe organ)
Longman & Broderip · 1786

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 1894

"Kai Kavus Attempts to Fly to Heaven", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · mid-15th century

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 1922

Afternoon ensemble
Artist not stated in the record · 1878–82

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 1941

Embroidered Carpet
Zeruah H. Guernsey Caswell · 1832–35

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1918

Spontoon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Feb 1935

De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi
Michel Eugène Chevreul · 1839

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1921

Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1914

Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Sep 1930
"Kai Khusrau, Farangis and Giv Crossing the River Jihun (Oxus)", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi · mid-15th century

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Nov 1906

The Organ Rehearsal
Henry Lerolle · 1885

Pellaea mucronata (D.C. Eaton) D.C. Eaton
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1938
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 25 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1296493 matched · 40 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.